15th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP2017

Session

New Dark Matter Search Strategies at DUNE

Jul 27, 2017, 11:30 AM

LOWER FRASER FA054

8. Directional Dark Matter Searches

Jason Kumar

7/27/17, 11:30 AM

Dark Matter

Invited talk

We consider the use of directionality in the search for monoenergetic sub-GeV
neutrinos arising from the decay of stopped kaons, which can be produced by dark matter annihilation in the core of the Sun. When these neutrinos undergo charged-current interactions with a nucleus at a neutrino detector, they often eject a proton which is highly peaked in the forward direction. The direction of this...